Articles by Glenn Stok
Writing has been a significant part of my career for many decades, creating technical journals, product user guides, and content for business websites. And I've been writing educational articles online since 2009.
The articles listed here provide helpful guidelines for authors with lessons to manage a successful writing career.
Poets find it challenging to get readers through organic traffic. If you want to monetize your poems with ad revenue, you need to learn how to write poetry that attracts Google traffic. A solution is to write poetry with an educational value. I describe the method in this article and show you an example.
Writers need to quickly give readers what they expect from the title. This article explains how to keep readers engaged, and how to monitor your content for success.
Social media marketing is pointless as long as authors write quality content that serves a purpose for organic traffic that comes from search results. Putting effort into writing stellar quality content that ranks well with Google is time much better spent. So it's better to let the algorithm bring the readers.
Learn how to improve your writing by focusing on the subject of the title and using material you already have to avoid writer's block.
You can apply your knowledge to your writing and concentrate on the topics you know well.
This article reviews how to keep your readers interested. The best strategy is to write articles that solve problems and share personal trials and tribulations. And the key is to stay focused on the subject of your article with relevance to expectations.
The purpose of this article is to give you a decent review of the business side of writing.
Some people make it a full-time job to earn a living. But even if you do it part-time, you need to consider it as a business.
If you don’t do that, then you only have a hobby and you’re limiting your success.
Expressive writing is where the author discusses personal thoughts about the subject. This article reviews how to achieve success with that content.
This is an example of writing fiction to tell a revealing story by using real life experiences.
Short stories of a revealing nature can be used to teach as well as entertain. See how it's done.
Interjections are abrupt exclamations, and alliterations are sentences where every word starts with the same letter. Tautograms are similar but with exceptions as explained in this article.
This article examines how requiring paying for unlimited access to read articles affects both readers and authors, with examples from the Medium content platform.
Authors can easily convert their articles to videos for posting on YouTube with Pictory. This effort can increase traffic since some people prefer to learn from watching videos.
This is an explanation of what type of content works best on either platform. I also include answers to questions people ask about these publishing sites.
The InfoBarrel platform no longer exists, as I predicted five years before its demise. This article covers its history and the cause of its failure.
This article reviews why the business models of these content sites led to failure. I predicted their downfall based on my background as a systems analyst.
Creators and publishers used Flipboard for self-promotion when it first got started. But ongoing problems are possible reasons why authors lost interest. Nevertheless, it still is a great information resource in a magazine-style format.
I discuss success strategies I use with HubPages in the tutorials under this category. Writers earn revenue from external traffic with ads automatically placed on their content. High quality content attracts organic traffic from Google search queries.
I have been writing educational articles since 2009 that are published on over 20 niche sites in the HubPages Network. HubPages is part of The Arena Group (formally Maven).
I also share helpful tips and advice for writing on the Medium platform, where I started publishing in 2018. Medium is an ad-free platform.
Among these tutorials, you will learn how to make money writing without ads on the Medium platform. Revenue comes from paid subscribers, so it's crucial to accumulate a following for success with the Medium Platform.
